Wow, this is completely bonkers. The Photon, a 3D scanner that’s positioned by Toronto-based Matterform as the world’s first, truly affordable 3D scanner for anyone, basically lets, well, anyone take a physical object and turn it into a digital 3D model. The possibilities are seemingly endless there: print out the model as a 3D replication or use it in an animation or video game.

It works by using a HD camera and dual laser lines to capture 3D scans at high speed — think 3 minutes. So how much capacity can it hold? Well, it can scan objects of up to 190mm x 190mm x 250mm. Plus, it is ultra-portable and folds up compactly. The scanner appears to be designed for simplicity to cater to those of us who can’t be fussed with learning how to use 3D modeling software.

As the succinct instructions go, all you have to do is: ‘Unfold it, plug it in, place an object on the scan bed and press go’. Looks pretty awesome.

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Genius! Toronto-based Terry Fan mixes traditional ink and graphite with Photoshop to create these classy studio portraits of Star Wars icons as Victorian dignitaries. There’s Lord Vader in a top coat and top hat, Chancellor Chewie looking grand with a monocle and pocket watch, Sir Yoda suited up for the occasion, Earl of Eisley enjoying a smoke, and General Fett looking intense.

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Magpie is a custom fashion boutique tucked away in Toronto’s Queen West district. The styles are out there, yet comforting, like Prince himself. What’s nice is we can now die happily knowing that Prince is actually a real human being that shops for clothes like the rest of us. It’s good to know that the shirt you saw on Jimmy Kimmel Live was made in Toronto and didn’t travel through a Shakespearean alien time-vortex after all.

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Hugh Langis is a Toronto-based illustrator and art director at Half Hunter. Over the years his work has been recognized by American Illustration, Creative Quarterly and published in The Globe and Mail, Condé Nast Traveler and L’actualité. His first big break, however, was having his work published on the cover of Seattle’s The Stranger newspaper. Commercial illustration can be a high stress job with tight deadlines that keep one up for hours and days.

Langis gets a kick out of this. He enjoys the challenge of thinking quickly, coming up with various concepts and collaborating with his clients. Colourful and loose oddball characters are his speciality, and with a solid style in hand, he creates wonderful illustrations inspired by ships, lighthouses and Japanese Baseball cards.

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Imagine creating a photo of Macau, China’s skyline one pixel at a time. Sounds tedious, right? But that’s exactly what Toronto-based Cube Works Studio did when they created these murals. 85,794 rubik’s cubes were arranged as if they were pixels to create these mind blowing designs. It only took a few months to construct this 13 foot high, 200 foot long image.

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Based out of Toronto, Canada, Sarika Sehgal is a fine art and travel photographer. In her latest series, Travelers and Magicians, the world’s her stage and subjects pulse to life under the limelight of a dancing night sky, a reoccurring image in the series and created from the formation of tiny bubbles inside a small aquarium and dropping liquid crème into water.

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I recently met artist Adrienne Dagg, a Canadian painter, in her Toronto studio. Her work has a certain romanticism, perhaps due to the colours used in her palate and the subjects she chooses. Using oil paints, her broad strokes convey light beautifully, taking the ordinary and adding an element of atmosphere. Her paintings vary in size from small to very large and each one conveys a natural moment through the subject, which I noticed were women. Beautiful work.

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Blood of The Young is a contemporary photography site and independent publishing house based in Toronto, Canada. Straight up bad boys with a heavy focus on skateboarding, graffiti and handmade goods. They feature and collaborate with artists like Ed Templeton, Alana Paterson and Dan Wilton.

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Toronto-based artist Amy Swartz’s Pests series began in 2011 and has expanded to include thousands of miniature sculptures that fuse insects and toys into one darkly fascinating collection. There’s something meticulously beautiful about the project, especially more monstrous creations like the werewolf butterfly, which the Swartz says ‘explores the idea of obsession — not only in the practice of art, but also in humanity’s perceived control over nature, life, and death’.

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Taking inspiration from five 19th-century novels (The Yellow Wallpaper, The Awakening, The Lifted Veil, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre) authored by women, Toronto-based photographer Julia Callon presented each novel as dual images of houses, one passive, one mad — not unlike conventional notions of womenhood. Superbly orchestrated.

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The clever people over at Toronto-based website AUX have just launched the Chris Brownout – a Google Chrome app that erases all mentions of Chris Brown from the web. The perfect app for those who don’t want to be reminded of a dude who behaves appallingly and gets an obnoxious reminder tattooed on his neck. Downloading now.

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Recently successfully backed on Kickstarter: the voice-activated computer Ubi which connects online via wifi once it’s plugged into a power socket and helps you do stuff like search the Internet, set the alarm and call your friend. Sounds familiar? Uh huh, we want to test-drive Ubi and Siri on the same commands to see which is faster. Then again, with its home connectivity, Ubi — the brainchild of a Toronto-based team — has the potential to wallop Siri with stuff it can do that Siri can’t, such as adjusting temperatures and lights. 

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In July, a guy onboard a Toronto-bound flight took a picture of a meteorological phenomenon called a fire rainbow. It proceeded to go viral online. One month later, the picture finally got around to my Facebook feed. So what did I do? Well, naturally I went, ‘Wowwwwwwwwwww’.

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Canada’s Muskoka Brewery is putting a new spin on the pop-up trend with a funky craft beer and culinary collision. Known as Hidden Kitchen, this monthly six-course dinner pairs some of Ontario’s favourite craft beer with seriously imaginative food.

The work of Chef Matt Kantor and Ivy Knight (both of past supper club fame) with Muskoka Brewery, Hidden Kitchen hosts a new chef each month in a secret pop-up space for 40 somewhere in downtown Toronto. Though not much is known before the events, eager diners can expect a mountain of beer paired with creative plates. (A recent menu featured deconstructed lobster salad and Muskoka’s entire line of craft brews.) If the unknown seems like a gamble, follow Muskoka Brewery’s motto to ‘venture off the beaten path’. They haven’t led us astray so far.

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After postponing seven European dates following the fatal stage collapse incident at Toronto’s Downsview Park, Radiohead played their first rescheduled show in Nimes, France at Les Arenes. The band paid tribute to drum technician Scott Johnson with the video screen filling up with his picture towards the end (watch for the 3:36 mark) of their encore performance of Reckoner.

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Robert Canali is an emerging artist from Toronto who explores the way in which photography and its relationship to presence can be experienced through installation.

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If you’ve always wanted to visit Toronto, but never really had a reason to go, now’s the time to head north by northeast, in more ways than one. The so-called little brother to SXSW, NXNE is a full week’s worth of nonstop live indie bands, film programs, and much less attitude than many other music-fueled juggernauts. Happening from June 11-17, NXNE also overlaps with LuminaTO, another Toronto-based arts festival that focuses on the latest creativity coming from the biggest city in Canada.

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Recently, I got to work on a series of illustrations for Toronto-based sportswear label, Muttonhead Collective. Their passion, combined with a commitment to fair trade and ethical practices, is something rarely seen in this day and age. I tried to create my own interpretation of the brand and their clothing through the combination of different mediums, using natural and organic elements as well as neutral colours.

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Love it or hate it, the Sharp Centre for Design, aka theOCAD building, in Toronto gets the artistic juices flowing. Art is about inspiring the mind, including the stuff that makes you say WTF? This building is polarizing to say the least, but good on Toronto for thinking outside the, erm, checkered box.

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One night in February, I attended a little musical gathering at the SuperMarket in Toronto. This is when I first heard the Handsome Fix and their remarkably fresh new sound. New album dropping Spring of this year.

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